Word: emberson
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...important obstacle in the way of achieving world government, the speakers pointed out, is the question of balances of power. Sohn urged that the body incorporate a number of checks and balances, while Emberson felt that small, newly independent nations would fear that the world government would be controlled by imperialistic nations...
...admitted him to honorable citizenship. But his wife Ishma's goings-on set tongues wagging, heads shaking. A beauty, intelligent and subversive, she set the neighboring town of Dunmow on its ear, was sure to be found at the storm-centre of all industrial disturbances. Mill-owner Bly Emberson, sanctified by a lifetime of patient subservience to his steel-jacketed wife, fell in love with her. So did his lawyer pal, Derry. Ishma might well have thought she was a fatal woman: Bly drowned himself because of her while Britt was killed defending her fair name. Author Burke, true...
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